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2637101 No.2637101 [Reply] [Original]

Is robert a heinlein a /lit/ approved author? I fucking love his books

>> No.2637115

Bump

>> No.2637120

Nothing?

>> No.2637121
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2637121

We tend not to like sci-fi, and then there's that whole fascist agenda which alienates more.

>> No.2637123

Who cares what lit likes? Read it if you like it.

>> No.2637125

>>2637121
No sci-fi allowed? I better fuck off before i get my feelings hurt

>> No.2637126

>>2637101

Why do you like Stranger in Strange land? I got half way through it and it felt really preachy and pompous, and nothing exciting happened at all

he had so much to work with and did nothing...wtf

>> No.2637129

>>2637125
I personally went through a long sci-fi fantasy period in my life. Read a bunch of Asimov and some Clarke, but also a lot of crap

>> No.2637131

>>2637126
Same reason i like ender's game. I'm an above average intelligence social outcast

>> No.2637194

I rather enjoyed The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

>> No.2637196

>>2637129

>Read a bunch of Asimov and some Clarke, but also a lot of crap

That's a redundant statement if ever there was one.

>> No.2637208

I'd read quite a lot of SF before reading any Heinlein, and seen many references to him as one of the top SF writers, so it came as a surprise when I read his books and found them either shitty (Farnham's Freehold), mind-numbing (Starship Troopers) or fun but overlong (Stranger in a Strange Land).

Is there some masterwork that made him such a noted SF author? I haven't seen it with what I've read so far.

>> No.2637245

Sorry to break it to you bro but /lit/ is full of pretentious hipster teenagers and only enjoy boring piles of garbage written by the likes of James Joyce and Thomas Pynchon so that they can sound deep and intellectual and edgy when they're really just douchey try-hard fags who trying to cling on to the notion they are more 'intellectual' than everyone else for reading MATURE BOOKS FOR MATURE READERS.

I ain't even mad, just calling it like it is. If you like book, stay far, far away from /lit/.

>> No.2637262

>>2637245
youmustbenewhere.png.gif.avi.exe

>> No.2637323

>>2637208

Basically he started a lot of scifi tropes.

>> No.2637374

>>2637196

Hey now.

>> No.2637383

>>2637374

What? I'm just saying that Clarke and Asimov have enough in common that they're practically the same writer. It's redundant to mention them both the way he did.

Accidentally copy/pasted the crap part.

>> No.2637446

>>2637383

I wouldn't say that.
Um on my phone so I'm going to give a grosely oversimplified argument on their differences.
Clark: religious
Asimov: not so much

>> No.2637449

/lit has killed my ability to enjoy 99% of sci-fi, i can't help noticing how most sci fi authors can't write for shit now.

>> No.2637560

I enjoy Heinlein, especially his kiddie books. Have Spacesuit-Will Travel is probably my favorite work of his.

>> No.2637568

/lit/ approved?

nope.